SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Darnell Dockett, who missed all of last season recovering from a torn ACL, was conspicuous by his absence from Saturday night's training camp opening practice for the San Francisco 49ers ...

SANTA CLARA – Quarterback Colin Kaepernick spent a good portion of his offseason working on refining his game to be more accurate and consistent with his off-speed pitches, rather than firing fastballs all over the field...

Daniel Kilgore, whom the 49ers are hoping will be their starting center this year, had minor surgery on the ankle he broke last season and will not be available for at least the first half of training camp...

Inside linebacker Michael Wilhoite, who started all 16 games last season in place of NaVorro Bowman, reported to training camp with a muscle strain in his leg and was placed on active/non-football injury...

Ninety players on the San Francisco 49ers ' 2015 NFL roster will eventually be whittled down to 53 by kick off of Week 1 of the upcoming season. And the serious portion of that process begins with training camp...

The San Francisco 49ers ’ first practice of training camp is Saturday night at Levi’s Stadium. The Niners will practice in front of the media 11 times over the span of two weeks during training camp...